Air quality monitors.

SOURCE: Catawba College
Davidson College and the Center for the Environment at Catawba College are partnering on a summer air monitoring program to measure ozone and nitrogen oxide (NOx) levels in seven Piedmont counties.

Dr. Cindy Hauser, associate professor of chemistry at Davidson, will analyze the data collected for cross comparison. Two of her students will be working with June McDowell, an air quality intern with the Center for the Environment, to deliver and collect the tubes with filters used for monitoring. Read the full story

Father and son Stephen and Dell Curry hosted their 2nd annual Celebrity Classic Golf Tournament Monday at River Run Country Club, marshaling an army of other pro athletes and celebrities – from NFL star Muhsin Muhammad to former UNC basketball coach Bill Guthridge – to help raise money for Davidson’s Ada Jenkins Center. Twenty-four teams, most with a celebrity and three players, hit the course at noon. Story and photos in SPORTS »

This week I have asked several Davidson College employees what they do when the students go home for the summer.  The reason I am asking this is because people are always asking my mother (who works at the college) if she gets the summer off when the students go home.  We always get a good laugh at that because in no way is she done when the students leave.

I asked people on Davidson’s campus how life changes without the students and what they do in the summertime.

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Goats get to work eating kudzu. Listen to an audio postcard below. (Michael Tomsic / WFAE)

By MICHAEL TOMSIC
WFAE

Davidson College put an unusual new maintenance crew to work yesterday. The crew consists of 30 goats imported from the Asheville area, and their job is to eat all the kudzu vine overrunning the most used stretch of the college’s ecological preserve. Reporter Michael Tomsic went to the forest of invasive Asian vine and produced this audio postcard: Read the full story

Robert Alexander

Davidson College Presbyterian Church is getting a new associate pastor. The church’s pastor nominating committee recently called Robert Alexander to the job.

The Rev. Alexander, 42, is a North Carolina native and comes to DCPC after seven years as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Union, S.C.

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Last weekend was notable for reunions at Davidson College.  This was the first year planning reunion gatherings in June after the students had departed.  Many returning members of the “younger” classes opted to stay in the dorms with bathrooms down the hall while others chose rooms with a private bath at area hotels.

Today Around Davidson has a few reunion notes, especially about the Class of ’61 celebrating their 50^th reunion and also news of The Swimming Hole celebrating 50 years of keeping Davidson families cool when the summer temperatures sizzle.  Do check out two Noteworthy Notes as well about Timothe Bittle and overflowing trash at our Post Office.
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Davidson College left-handed pitcher Chris Lamb and right-handed pitcher Andy Bass were selected by the Oakland A’s and Tampa Bay Rays, respectively, on the second day of Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft on Tuesday.  Meanwhile, a Florida wrestler is poised to become the first woman ever to wrestle on the Davidson men’s wrestling team. Read more in our Sports People column, in SPORTS »

Also today, a team photo and report on the Copperheads 11U team from Davidson, which won a state title last weekend.

bug” title=”HealthFitness-bug” width=”137″ height=”85″ class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-29008″ />More than 400 cyclists turned out Saturday morning, June 4, at Davidson College for the annual Collier Lilly Ride 4 Life, which raised funds and awareness for organ donation. The event is named in memory of a Davidson College student who died in 1987. Story in Health & Fitness, CLICK HERE »